I'm really happy with my new Dell precision M6400.
The only thing most people complain about is the size of the power brick, and I can't agree more. It's a huge 200 Watt thing and it's really as large and heavy as a stone brick.
Luckily I still have a spare power brick of my old Dell precision M65: a 90 Watt PA-10 family power brick. It has exactly the same voltage (19.5 Volt) so I decided to try it.
I've been using it now for a few days when at customer sites and it works fine.
(Try at your own risk!)
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Thanks for this tip/idea (I could try with a M70)
I am considering the same laptop, as I landed here from planet.debian.org - can I ask you how went your debian install on it ?
and your working config (proc, fingerprint, raid/hdd) ?
and what is your average battery life ?
thanks in advance
Hi,
I have the quadcore CPU, no fingerprint reader (fingerprints aren't safe, and it sits in the way when you use it without an external keyboard).
I bought it with one HD and added a second HD myself, because that was a lot cheaper.
I use RAID-0, linux software raid, 2x 320Gb 7200rpm disks.
Everything works fine, although I did need to upgrade to a 2.6.27 kernel to get bluetooth to work ( think I blogged about that before).
Joost
A yeah, battery life is terrible. A little more then an hour. I didn't try to tune it yet as this is my desktop replacement.
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